India, plane crash and Air Accident Investigation Bureau
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Cockpit recordings from the Air India crash reveal pilot confusion after fuel cutoff switches mysteriously flipped during takeoff, causing engines to lose power in the disaster.
Air India Crash investigation reveals fuel switch concerns, sparking Boeing 787 safety review and urgent inspections across airlines.
According to the Air India flight recorder, a few seconds after takeoff, switches for both engines transitioned to cutoff from run one after another with a time gap of one second. As a result, the engines began to lose power. Seconds later, the switches flipped back to run, according to the preliminary report.
A focus on the Boeing 787’s fuel switches in a preliminary assessment raised questions about the pilots’ actions, but much is still unknown about Flight 171.
The Air India plane that crashed last month had its engine fuel cut off shortly after takeoff, something aviation experts say is “absolutely bizarre.”
The preliminary report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau reveals that India got specialised equipment from the US National Transportation Safety Board in June
After the Air India flight climbed to 625 feet, the aircraft's signal was lost 50 seconds into the flight in clear conditions. CCTV images showed the deployment of a backup energy source called a ram air turbine that showed a loss of power from the engines.
Medical records for an Air India pilot killed in last month’s crash are reportedly now being reviewed by investigators amid reports he’d been suffering from depression and other mental